UK university league table (2012 and 2011)

2012  2011
1 2 Cambridge
2 1 Oxford
3 3 Imperial College London
4 5 London School of Economics
5 4 Durham
6 6 St Andrews
7 9 University College London
8 7 Warwick
9 8 Lancaster
10 12 Bath
11 16 Bristol
12 10 York
13 11 Edinburgh
14 14 Southampton
15 24 Exeter
16 13 King's College London
17 18 Nottingham
18 15 SOAS
19 21 Loughborough
19 19 Sussex
21 26 Glasgow
22 23 Birmingham
23 22 Leicester
24 29 Newcastle
25 17 Aston
26 25 Sheffield
27 28 East Anglia
28 33 Surrey
29 31 Manchester
30 32 Liverpool
31 35 Queen's, Belfast
32 27 Leeds
33 30 Royal Holloway
34 38 Kent
34 40 Reading
36 39 Queen Mary
37 41 Cardiff
38 37 Essex
38 34 Heriot-Watt
40 35 Strathclyde
41 47 City
42 20 Buckingham
43 45 Dundee
44 43 Keele
45 52 Stirling
46 44 Aberdeen
46 50 Oxford Brookes
48 41 Hertfordshire
49 47 Aberystwyth
50 46 Brunel
51 51 Robert Gordon
52 54 Ulster
53 65 Plymouth
54 60 Swansea
55 49 Nottingham Trent
56 53 Chichester
57 57 Goldsmiths College
58 67 Huddersfield
59 70 University of the Arts, London
60 64 Northumbria
61 68 West of England, Bristol
62 55 Bournemouth
62 56 Hull
62 68 Sheffield Hallam
65 72 Central Lancashire
66 58 Birmingham City
67 71 Lincoln
68 73 Brighton
68 59 UWIC, Cardiff
70 76 Winchester
71 97 Middlesex
72 75 Coventry
73 61 Bradford
73 87 Roehampton
75 62 Gloucestershire
76 79 Glasgow Caledonian
77 94 Westminster
78 63 Bangor
79 109 University for the Creative Arts
80 81 Chester
81 65 De Montfort
81 89 Portsmouth
83 86 Glamorgan
84 74 Edinburgh Napier
85 83 Bath Spa
86 81 Cumbria
87 77 Queen Margaret
88 84 Kingston
89 89 University of Wales, Newport
90 105 Teesside
91 93 Sunderland
92 - Trinity Saint David
93 89 Manchester Metropolitan
93 95 West London
95 98 Abertay Dundee
95 85 Leeds Metropolitan
97 96 Salford
98 88 Edge Hill
99 80 Staffordshire
100 106 Canterbury Christ Church
101 102 Liverpool John Moores
102 78 York St John
103 101 Bedfordshire
104 92 Glyndwr
105 100 Northampton
106 102 Worcester
107 108 Buckinghamshire New
108 104 Derby
109 110 Greenwich
110 106 Anglia Ruskin
111 111 Southampton Solent
112 - West of Scotland
113 113 East London
114 112 Bolton
115 115 London Metropolitan
116 114 London South Bank

What is the most common video format?

The most common video formats

• .mp4, MPEG-4 Video File, supported by IOS, which means you can play .mp4 videos on iPhone, iPod, etc.
• .avi, Audio Video Interleave File. It is almost supported by any video player and video converter.

Very common video formats

• .flv, Flash Video File, youtube file format.
• .mov Apple QuickTime Movie 

Common video formats

• .wmv, Windows Media Video File 
• .swf, Shockwave Flash Movie
• .3gp, 3GPP Multimedia File
• .mp3 
• .mpg/.mpeg 
• .rm,  Real Media File
• .vob, DVD Video Object File
• .WebM

If you are not sure which file format to save/convert to, use either .mp4 or .avi which will cause least trouble for your audience.

Visa Restrictions Index - Global Ranking 2011

Rank			Number of countries which can be entered without a visa
1		Denmark	173
1		Sweden	173
1		Finland	173
2		Germany	172
3		United Kingdom	171
3		Netherlands	171
3		Luxembourg	171
3		France	171
3		Belgium	171
3		Italy	171
4		Spain	170
4		Japan	170
4		Norway	170
4		Portugal	170
5		Ireland	169
5		United States	169
6		Austria	168
7		Switzerland	167
8		New Zealand	166
8		Australia	166
8		Greece	166
9		Canada	164
9		Iceland	164
9		Singapore	164
10		South Korea	163
11	Malta		160
12	Malaysia		158
12	Liechtenstein		158
19	Hong Kong		149
23	Israel		142
25	Brazil		140
28	St. Kitts and Nevis		131
45	Montenegro		97
47	South Africa		92
49	Russian Federation		89
50	Bosnia Herzegovina		87
54	Dominica		82
65	United Arab Emirates		67
69	Thailand		63
78	India		53
88	Vietnam		42
89	Egypt		41
40	China		40
94	Iran		36
96	Nepal		34
97	Lebanon		33
99	Pakistan		31
110	Afghanistan		24

Most common fonts which have a good differentiation between L, I, and number 1

The best common fonts to differentiate
small 'L' and capital 'I',
small 'L' and number '1',
capital 'O' and number '0'
is
Verdana L l I i 1 Oo0

Entourage 2008: how to access old archived emails in another user account on your Mac

Entourage saves everything into the identity. It's located
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/Main Identity
Simply copy all the files to the same location in your new user account, Entourage starts using it immediately.

The difference between mild, medium, and mature Cheddar cheese

The difference between mild, medium, and mature Cheddar cheese is their age.
Mild Cheddar - about 3 months of age
medium Cheddar - about 5 to 6 months
mature Cheddar - around 9 months
extra Mature - around 15 months
Vintage cheddar- 18 months to 2 years

As Cheddar matures so it's taste develops from the young creamy taste of mild Cheddar to complex, lasting, slightly nutty flavours of mature Cheddar and beyond. These more mature (extra mature or vintage) Cheddars tend to have a characteristic sweet, nutty flavour.

Best paid university majors

1. Petroleum Engineering
2. Chemical Engineering
3. Electrical Engineering
4. Materials Science & Engineering
5. Aerospace Engineering
6. Computer Engineering
7. Physics
8. Applied Mathematics
9. Computer science
10. Nuclear Engineering
11. Biomedical Engineering
12. Economics
13. Mechanical Engineering

Based on these, the most useful A Level subjects are

• Chemistry
• Engineering
• Physics

Walk to Work, Walk to School

Day journey of a single working mum with two children

I don't drive.

Every week day, I send my little one to her nursery that is 0.2 miles from home (it takes 3 minutes). Then I send my old kid to school that is 0.7 miles from the nursery (takes 15 minutes). After that I go to office that is 0.8 miles from the school (takes 20 minutes).

In the evening, I first collect my old one from her after school care which is 1.3 miles from my work (it takes me 25 minutes), then to the little one's nursery that is 1.1 miles from the after school care (takes 22 minutes). Finally, bring both children home (again 0.2 miles and 3-minute walk).

Totally, my daily walking distance is 4.3 miles and I spend 1.5 hours on the road.
Miles: 0.2 + 0.7 + 0.8 + 1.3 + 1.1 + 0.2 = 4.3 miles
Minutes: 3 + 15 + 20 + 25 + 22 + 3 = 1 hr 30 min

The actually time I spend is 2 hours (one hour in the morning, and one in the evening) if you count the time sign-in and sign-out children, a very brief talk to their teachers, etc. It means I have to leave office at 5 pm sharp, or I won't be able to collect the little one form nursery by 6 pm which may result a late-collection fine.